Kevin:
A day of migratory dove hunting in Texas should be a very enjoyable experience. The birds will be moving fast, often high, and from every direction.
I've related this story before on the Forum, but the best wing shot I ever made was accomplished with an old Stevens 20-guage side-by-side double. I was hunting migratory doves with a retriever I owned at the time, a very talented Vizsla named "Gypsy" (the dog I mentioned on Adam's recent thread on "Dozer"). The land on which we were hunting bordered the James River in Goochland County, Virginia, and was owned by one of my old Army buddies. "Gypsy" and I were on the north bank of the river looking upland when a pair of birds came straight at us, high and fast. The dog was sitting on her haunches just to my right. Somehow, I managed to lead the pair exactly right and they fell alomost together literally at the dog's feet. She looked at the birds, which were both cleanly killed and not moving, looked up at me, looked back at the birds, and finally looked up at me again as if to say, "What am I supposed to do now?"
